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Comment by rahuldottech | Hacker News Reader

I find it curious how programmers are so poor at naming their projects. This could've easily been named pokésay.

That said, it's a cool project!

The way you phrased this makes it seem like you aren't a programmer and are looking in from outside of the programming world.

On another note: a less condescending way of conveying the same message would have been "Cool project. Pokésay would have been a great name instead of Pokemonsay."

I... am a programmer. And I'm terrible at naming too, usually. It was just a light-hearted comment.

Same here, no offence taken. I found it funny how it seemed as if you weren't a programmer, but you mention naming things as something programmers can't do, which is something programmers say. It made me imagine an outsider who agrees with the programmers are crap at naming meme. "Those shitty programmers with their constant misnaming of things." like people hating on cab driver's anti-social driving.

Well, it's one of the hardest things, along with cache invalidation.

Don’t forget off-by-one errors!

Then you’d have to either write the accent on the e (which is not user friendly) or name it “pokesay” which could me confusing (as in poking someone). I think this is a good utility name.

> (which is not user friendly)

For the pityful group of users who use the default US keymap.

>This could've easily been named pokésay

Not for users with a US keyboard

pokAlt+(numpad)0233say

> Not for users with a US keyboard

Install a proper keymap.

Just use English / US (International), it will make "é" become ' + e and allow lots of other combinations.

I would recommend Miltanksay

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